The Renin-Angiotensin System: Current Research Progress in The Pancreas The RAS in the Pancreas /

• Main Author: Leung, Po Sing. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 690
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Diabetes.; Gastroenterology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Human Physiology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9060-7

The human pancreas has vital roles in the regulation of glucose homeostasis and digestion and its dysfunction leads to pancreatic disease as diabetes and pancreatitis. Recent researches have highlighted the novel roles of a local renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the pancreas and its clinical releva...

Table of Contents:

• PART I: THE PANCREAS
• 1. Overview of the Pancreas
• 2. Physiology of the Pancreas
• 3. Common Pancreatic Disease
• PART II: THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM (RAS)
• 4. Circulating RAS
• 5. Local RAS
• 6. Pancreatic RAS
• PART III: RESEARCH PROGRESS OF THE RAS IN PANCREAS
• 7. Basic Techniques for Pancreatic Research
• 8. Current Research of the RAS in Diabetes Mellitus
• 9. Current Research of the RAS in Pancreatic Stem Cells
• 10. Current Research of the RAS in Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer
• Subject Index
• " Epilogue by Per-Ola Carlsson (Sweden) and Jan Danser (Netherlands).